1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols bar tool still looks great

still looks great

This guy seems to me kind and quite sensitive

and badger brushes are especially suited for painting on glass and ceramic

and two pages all of numbers

MA and knew it had to come home with me

1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols bar tool still looks greatThis fabulous thing, hand etched with an jam packed array of Freemasonry symbols, would once have been part of the scabbard or sheath for a ceremonial sword, with the rings allowing it to be hung proudly on the wall in between ritual wieldings:) I don't have much of an interest in swords, but I am sure glad someone salvaged this piece, which now I'd hang from those two rings just as it is. The metal piece itself was produced by the Ames Manufacturing